Theos-Talk Archives (June 2008 Message tt00188)

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Authorities


Here are a few qoutes from the gems of Theosophy on the issue Authorities. 

"The Society, as such, has no authorities.  It was founded with the object of breaking down that reliance upon 'authority' which has been the bane of man for ages, and it would be strange now in we could admit authority for theosophists...We are engaged in trying to develop a truer appreciation of the Light of Life which is hidden in every man, and so the "final authority" is the man himself." 
( -- WQJ  "AUTHORITY,";  The Path, Nov. 1887,      WQJ Art. II 543, 575)



"No true Theosophist...would consent to become the fetish of a fashionable doctrine, any more than he would make himself the slave of a decaying dead-letter system, the spirit from which has disappeared forever. Neither would he pander to anyone or anything, and therefore would always decline to show belief in that in which he does not, nor can he believe, which is lying to his own soul...we will keep to that pure ray 'that comes from above,' from the light of the Ancient." 
(--HPB  "Dual Aspect of Wisdom",  Lucifer, Sept. 1890,   HPB Articles  I  36-7)




H. P. Blavatsky said: 
"The Society founded to remedy the glaring evils of Christianity, to shun bigotry and intolerance, cant and superstition and to cultivate real universal love extending even to the dumb brute". 
(The Collected Writings of H. P. Blavatsky, vol. 7, p.246)



M. Sufilight

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